atrocities

Combines a fictional narrative, in which Adam recounts his experiences and survival of the Auschwitz concentration camp, with excerpts of actual testimony from the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial of 1963-65 made by Dr. Victor Capesius--who was assigned to be a "sorter" of new arrivals to the concentration camp--and historical research.

Discusses the military policy of rape for the purpose of genocide by members of the Yugoslav Army and the Bosnian Serb military, focusing on the peculiar logic of pregnancy-aimed rape; and calls for prosecution of the perpetrators as a crime of biological warfare.

An account of how deeply Nazi ideology penetrated the army sheds new light on how deeply it penetrated the nation.

Transcribes sessions from a conference discussing the massacre at My Lai on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam Conflict in which 504 Vietnamese civilians were killed by American forces.

Janis Karpinski, the first female general to command American troops in a combat zone, recounts the events surrounding the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq that ruined her career.

Presents a collection of documents and reports in which U.S. government officials wrote to prepare the way for the interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib prison.

Examines the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes, describing how the killings were more widespread than many believed, and explores how those crimes influenced other events in modern history.

A collection of news articles by Seymour Hersh that originally appeared in "The New Yorker" that address a variety of topics related to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Examines the mass destruction and indiscriminate killings that took place across Europe during World War I by German occupying troops, and the total warfare that was often directed to the civilian population.

Presents a comprehensive collection of letters written by the author's father, Thomas J. Dodd, who served as one of the U.S. prosecutors at the 1945 Nuremberg trial.